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Planar Waveguide Devices for Communication and Sensing Applications

  • Received : 2010.10.19
  • Accepted : 2010.11.15
  • Published : 2010.12.25
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Abstract

The paper reviews progress and future prospects of two kinds of planar waveguide devices; they are (a) silica and silicon photonics multi/demultiplexers for communications and signal processing applications, and (b) a novel waveguide spectrometer based on Fourier transform spectroscopy for sensing applications.

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